2025-26 Season Auditions - The Skin of Our Teeth

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SUMMARY

Meet George and Maggie Antrobus of Excelsior, New Jersey, a suburban, commuter-town couple (married for 5,00 years) who bear more than a casual resemblance to that first husband and wife, Adam and Eve; their two children, Gladys (perfect in every way, of course) and Henry (who likes to throw rocks and was formerly known as Cain); and their garrulous maid Sabina (the eternal seductress), who takes it upon herself to break out of character and interrupt the play at every opportunity (“I don't understand a word of this play!”).  Whether inventing the alphabet or merely saving the world from apocalypse, George and his family somehow manage to survive it all – by the skin of their teeth. 

Combining farce, burlesque, satire, and elements of the comic strip, Thornton Wilder depicts an archetypal family as it narrowly escapes one end-of-the-world disaster after another, from the Ice Age to the Deluge, to War.